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A Brief History of Intelligence

作者 Max Bennett

A Brief History of Intelligence

五次飞跃。五亿年。一颗心智 —— 你的 —— 站在这条线的尽头。

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— 核心观点
智能不是降临的。
它是累积的。

解读 A Brief History of Intelligence
作者 Max Bennett

— 心智架构

心智是一个栈。

i. 导向 5.5 亿年前 ii. 强化 5 亿年前 iii. 模拟 1 亿年前 iv. 心智化 3500 万年前 v. 语言 ~10 万年前 ↑ 你在这里

每一层都完整保留了它之下的一切
大脑不是替换出来的 —— 而是叠加出来的。

模拟

—— 想象力,有一个化石化的诞生日期

在头脑里,一个可能的世界悄然亮起 —— 随之而来的,是规划、做梦、悔恨。

— Why founders should read this

LLMs arrived at step five
without taking the first four.

What's missing isn't size, it's stack. The gap between today's models and real intelligence isn't more parameters — it's four breakthroughs of evolution that we tried to skip.

— The comparison

Where today's AI sits.

HUMAN MIND 5 layers, stacked SPEAK MENTALIZE SIMULATE REINFORCE STEER 550M years deep FULL STACK VS TODAY'S LLM just the top SPEAK 4 layers missing ! TOP ONLY

Scale alone won't close that gap.
What's missing isn't size — it's stack.

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